Lego Segway

Jeff Lalo writes "This Guy has built a Lego version of Dean Kamens Segway Human Transporter. This thing was constructed using only Legos, two cheap (~$40) custom sensors and some smart programing using the open source BrickOS for the Lego RCX. The LegWay, as the creator calls it, can balance itself on two wheels and follow a line. Pretty cool for few lego blocks!"

Comments

First post?, and he's prepared for slashdotting

[OzPixel]

Looks like someone gave the guy pre-warning, his page only has links to some mirrors, e.g. Here or here or even here .

Smart man...

[MoThugz]

I don't know how he got the impression that he's going to get some major slashdotting... but the list of mirrors is a good idea.

Anyway... IF the Geocities mirror list get's slashdotted, here are the list of mirrors:

http://perso.freelug.org/legway/LegWay.html
http://legway.armorica.biz
http://home1.gte.net/res1g289/StevesLegWay.htm

Re:Impossible

[elmegil]

That's ludicrous. A bump or a slope is just a distortion of the 2D surface that the wheels are riding along. It doesn't CLAIM to navigate 3D space anyway. (And the video of it following a line is pretty impressive).

Re:Suggestion for Slashdot Admins

[microsost]

20mb you say.. ok theres over half a million slashdot users. Now say just 1% of users visit the slashdot cache - 5000 users. Now say they download just 5% of that site - 1mb. That's 5gb of traffic from just 1% of /. users - 1% of registered users. Now say that happens on one site a day - 30x5gb=150gb/month.. That's one whole lot of bandwidth.. at a lot of $$. Now imagine of 5% of registered users looked at these sites.. 750gb.. 10% and you're up to 1.5tb